Cook, Andrew. M: MI5's First Spymaster. Stroud, UK, and Charleston, SC: Tempus, 2005.
Cook, Andrew. M: MI5's First Spymaster. Stroud, UK, and Charleston, SC: Tempus, 2005.
DKR, AFIO WIN 13-05 (28 Mar. 2005), says that the author "has written a well-researched and colorful account of William Melville." In 1909, when MI5 was formally established, Melville became its first head. Melville died in 1917.
[UK/Historical]
Cook, Andrew. On His Majesty's Secret Service: Sidney Reilly ST1. Stroud, UK, and Charleston, SC: Tempus, 2002.
From advertisement (http://www.sidneyreilly.com): "The definitive biography of one of the most complex and remarkable characters in the 20th century history of espionage and the creator of a personal myth which still exerts a powerful grip on the imagination of today.... This book fills a huge gap in the literature on Reilly, providing a significant amount of new primary evidence which focuses on his personal life as the key to cutting through the mystery and misinformation which still surrounds him."
Peake, Studies 46.4, says that "Cook's account is both scholarly and fascinating reading. It qualifies as the definitive version of the life of this famous agent who was executed by the Soviets and buried in the courtyard of Lubyanka prison."
For Swain, I&NS 18.3, "[t]his is almost the definitive account" of Reilly's career, "almost, but not quite. It tells the reader everything that Britain's master spy was not, but not everything that he was."
Troy, IJI&C 17.3, notes that the author has "striven to correct Reilly's record," by researching and documenting "much primary material." The book "reads persuasively and smoothly." Nonetheless, it does not answer the question of whether Reilly's life (or death) really mattered.
[WWI/UK/Reilly]
Cook, Blanche
W. The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1981. [Petersen]
[GenPostwar/50s/Gen]
Cook, Chris,
et. al. War and Resistance. London: Macmillan, 1992.
Surveillant 2.2: "The papers of over 1,000 individuals, including military and naval commanders as well as resistance fighters and underground leaders."
[WWII/Eur/Resistance]
Cook,
Earle F. "Electronic Black Chamber." Army 13, no. 2 (1962):
37 ff. [Petersen]
[MI]
Cook, Fred J.
"Allen McLane, Unknown Hero of the Revolution." American Heritage
7, no. 3 (1956): 74-77, 118-119.
[RevWar]
Cook, Fred J.
"The CIA." Nation, 24 Jun. 1961, 8-15, 529-572. [Petersen]
[CIA/60s/Gen]
Cook,
Fred J. The FBI Nobody Knows. New York: MacMillan, 1964.
Chambers suggests that this book is a "disinformation exercise."
[FBI]
Cook,
Fred J. "J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI." Lithopnion 6, no.
2 (1971): 8- 15, 58-63. [Petersen]
[FBI]
Cook, Fred J. The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss. New York: William Morrow, 1958.
From the "Hiss-was-framed" genre.
[SpyCases/U.S./Hiss]
Cook, Joseph
L. Industrial Spying and Espionage. Montecello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1985.
Wilcox: "Extensive list of books & articles. Not annotated."
[GenPostwar/Issues/EconIntel/Corp]
Cook, Nick. "Predator Closes Sensor-to-Shooter Gap for USAF." Jane's Defence Weekly, 13 Feb. 2002, 28-29.
[Recon/UAVs]
Cooke, Tom. "Agency Comes of Age as NGA." Pathfinder, Sep./Oct. 2003, 5. [http://www.nima.mil/]
When the FY2004 Defense Authorization Act is signed, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) will officially become the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Office of Corporate Relations, Public Affairs, Media Release: OCRP 03-15, 24 Nov. 2003 [http://www.nima.mil/]: With the signing on 24 November 2003 "of the FY2004 Defense Authorization Act, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) officially became the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)....
"Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, NIMA accelerated the convergence of various analytic tradecrafts (cartography, geospatial analysis, imagery analysis, marine analysis, aeronautical analysis, regional analysis, geodesy) into a new intelligence discipline -- geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT -- that is clearly greater than the sum of its parts....
"NGA is both a national intelligence as well as combat support agency whose mission is to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of our national security. Geospatial intelligence is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth."
[MI/NIMA/NGA]
Coole, Diana. "Agency, Truth and Meaning: Judging the Hutton Report." British Journal of Political Science 35, no. 3 (Jul. 2005): 465-485. [Marlatt]
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Cooley, John
K. Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East. New York: Brassey's (US), Maxwell Macmillan, Inc., 1991.
Surveillant 2.2: "Of particular interest ... [is the] examination of U.S. intelligence's lack of preparation for the Shah's fall and its ignorance of internal Iranian developments which gradually pulled the U.S. into the region." The article includes other items of intelligence interest.
[CA/ME]
Cooley, John
K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International
Terrorism. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999.
Meyer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2000, comments that the author "[p]ossibly ... tries to explain too much, and ... his text is marred by errors that a good copy editor would have caught." Nevertheless, Unholy Wars asks salient questions and draws on an impressive body of sources."
For Fuller, NYT, 9 Jan. 2000, this work "ultimately disappoints.... Cooley is unable to conceal a powerful bias against anything that the C.I.A. touches.... [O]ne searches in vain for any balance.... More seriously, Cooley superficially attributes to Washington's 'holy war' in Afghanistan the emergence of most subsequent regional viciousness, ignoring the deep roots of most of these crises.... [In addition,] the book is carelessly put together, a kind of reportorial pastiche of details ... that constantly bounce back and forth over four decades."
[CA/Afghanistan]
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